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Pet Shop Boys, George Michael, openly bisexual Jessie J, and a full stadium singalong with Freddie Mercury on center-stage screens. I don’t think we could have asked for much more.

Cartoonist Mr. Fish tells the Jesus In Love blog about the above panel, which was first published in mid-May in reaction to North Carolina’s marriage ban. “I chose Freddie Mercury as Jesus’ partner because, a.) he is immediately recognizable as a gay icon and b.) there is something both holy and tragic about Mercury’s life and premature death. In many …

Trending in Twitter’s top ten. Sample media tweet: “Drunk suspect sings Bohemian Rhapsody in back of squad car. Nails it.” Over a million YouTube hits in 24 hours.

Speculation began last year and now there might be some news, if you believe one British tabloid. Freddie Mercury’s place will be taken by Adam Lambert, the American Idol winner. He wowed fans by singing with original members Brian May and Roger Taylor at MTV’s EMAs in Belfast last November. Adam told me he can’t wait to sing with guitarist …

Queen’s short list for a new lead singer includes Lady Gaga. Could Gaga go from a lady to a Queen? Guitarist Brian May has said that among the singers Queen’s considered to front the band, Lady Gaga is a top contender. “We get a lot of offers to work with other people,” May told Express. “I worked with Lady Gaga …

On the BBC’s Let’s Dance For Comic Relief, controversial former model and author Katie Price dressed as Freddie Mercury in a recreation of Queen’s classic 1984 drag video for I Want To Break Free. Those are her real actual boobies, by the way.

Movember is the global cancer awareness campaign in which participants grow mustaches to draw attention to men’s cancers. Copyranter tips us to the above image being used in Singapore’s prostate cancer campaign. Hit the link for more images of the famously mustachioed and what they’d look like clean-shaven.

Sacha Baron Cohen will play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic. The film, which will focus on the period leading up to Live Aid in 1985, will begin shooting next year. “I think we’ll try and keep ourselves out of it as much as we can,” Queen guitarist Brian May said. Baron Cohen had been “on this project since we …

“Jar-Jar Binks, I wish you’d never been born at all.” Production values are quite high for a parody, even though it’s even longer than Bohemian Rhapsody.

I remember my roommates and I making an frantic trip to Gold Triangle to make sure we had enough fresh VHS tapes to record the entire 16-hour concert and keep it forever. Watching the still healthy looking Freddie Mercury in 1985, we never ever dreamed that AIDS would still be killing our friends in 2010. Seven years after Live Aid, …

Beaker gets the best lines. Meep.

Seriously. After Lambert’s raved-about performance with Queen during the American Idol final, the band’s frontman Brian May tells Rolling Stone: “Roger Taylor and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. It’s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isn’t that easy. But I’d certainly …